Category: User Experience

  • Macromedia blogger survey

    It looks like Macromedia is exploring or considering the idea of providing some sort of blogging products or services or features. If you want to help them gauge the needs of bloggers, take their Blog Authoring Survey. (via deeje cooley)

  • Get paid in iTunes to create blog buzz

    My sysadmin just pointed me to this listing at craigslist in New York: Bloggers needed – $300 per month. They pay with PayPal too. Sounds like a blend of the Marquis experiment and the Bzz Agent concept. Wonder who the payer is?

  • Is trackback dead? Are comments on life support?

    Quoting from Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too? (plasticbag.org) I think it’s time we faced the fact that Trackback is dead. We should state up front – the aspirations behind Trackback were admirable. We should reassert that we understand that there is a very real need to find mechanisms to knit together the world…

  • dashLicious

    Quoting from dashLicious: dashLicious is a Dashboard widget that “implements a post to your del.icio.us account on the fabulous web service created by Joshua Schachter. dashLicious is optimised for Safari and NetNewsWire users. When you enter into the dashboard dashLicious will automatically populate the url and description fields from either Safari or NetNewsWire (and will…

  • There must be five ways to quit your day job

    Five tips on How to make money from your blog: Sell advertising Help sell others’ products Solicit contributions Market your services Deepen your existing customer relationships I’s mostly a Tip 4 kind of guy with a bit of Tip 5 mixed in. Unless you count the incredibly lucrative Google ads, that is. Croesus ain’t in…

  • Tim Bray counters the 'fired for blogging' hype

    In It’s Not Dangerous, Tim Bray extols the career benefits of blogging, primarily as a way to stay informed, establish expertise, and get noticed. p.s.: His curly quotes that are being rendered as (a-with-circumflex, Euro symbol, trademark TM)? in my browser? Whose fault is that?

  • Hugh Macleod calls for the end of metablogging

    In gapingvoid: the death of metablogging, makes the usual points against navelgazing, rendering this weblog obsolete. I gather that metametablogging is still cool, though?

  • Technorati tags plug-in for MarsEdit

    The divine Laura Lemay has given us MarsEdit users a great shortcut for adding technorati tags as keywords. I’m going to add some as I post this (from a bookmarklet) and then reopen the post in MarsEdit to activate the key words. If and when it works, they will apear at the bottom of this…

  • Surrender to the Flow

    Frank Paynter writes: I’m sure Adam Rifkin speaks for many of us when he says: Why does having a blog mean feeling perpetually behind? (Not just in having something to say, but in finding time to type it in, press POST, sending the bits over the 802.11, out the 10Base-T, through the router, down the…

  • Clickable Culture reads the fine print

    Tony Walsh at Clickable Culture looks closely at the terms of service for the bloggers being paid to blog about / endorse Marqui’s product ( – Deconstructing Marqui’s Adverblogging Antics) and doesn’t like what he sees: Today I discovered that the situation is actually worse than I originally thought.

  • Does blogging need an ethics committee?

    Quoting from Blog Ethics Committee, Blog Publishers Association, and the evil Word of Mouth Marketing folks – The Jason Calacanis Weblog – calacanis.weblogsinc.com :  Nick Denton put up a pleasantly surprising post today, complimenting me for being a “volunteer watchdog” for blog ethics. He proposes Jeff Jarvis and I start a blog ethics committee…

  • Cadenhead revamps Buzzword hosting

    In Weblog Hosting Priced to Move, Rogers Cadenhead explains that hosting the Weblogs.com refugees has turned out not to be as cost-intensive as he anticipated and that with some sponsored links he will be able to continue to host all active migrated blogs at Buzzword.com for free.

  • The biter bit

    Warner Bros. dabbles in the MP3-blogging space as a p.r. strategy (paging Steve Rubel) and gets a bit burned by the experience, according to this New York Times article: Warner’s Tryst With Bloggers Hits Sour Note. I’ll have to check out J.D.’s coverage of this story. (nonrotting link courtesy of the userland-partnership feature, generated automatically…

  • Movable Type's professional logging play

    Farhad Manjoo chronicles Movable Type’s rise from a opular nearly free weblogging tool to a product positioning itself for the corporate market (Salon.com Technology | Blogging grows up).

  • Any way to restore hastily deleted comments?

    Bastards put my own URL in one of their spam comments and in my haste I deleted some legitimate comments (posted by myself). Feelin’s stupid. If I go to backups of my mysql database should I be able to resurrect the killed comments? I did manage to preserve the post IDs for the comments, which…

  • Will no one rid me of this troublesome spam?

    I wasn’t kidding about wanting a intern to volunteer for spam-destruction. As a perk I will offer posting privileges to the front page of this blog to anyone (who is already a blogger) who volunteers for this all-important spam squelching mode. This requires both deleting spam and banning URLs daily but also noticing the patterns…

  • How blogs die

    I declare this blog (Blogistan Editorial) a failure! How liberating to say so. Plus, it died, so we can dissect it without causing any further pain to the organism. My theory, it’s a dry eddy off the mighty Mississipppi that is Radio Free Blogistan. We have a whole community out there and we’re conspiring the…

  • 11th annual Waterside Conference

    As some of my readers know, my literary agency, Waterside, hosts a publishing and technology conference every spring. For years we did it in San Diego near the Waterside mothership but last year we did it in Berkeley and had such a good time we’re having it there again. This year’s conference (Waterside: Conference 11.0)…

  • Weblog strategies for enterprise knowledge management

    At urgreyhot, jibbajabba posts links to several versions of a slideshow for the Computers in Libraries conference on the topic urlgreyhot : Supporting enterprise knowledge management with weblogs: A weblog services roadmap.

  • Scott Rosenberg blogs Seybold

    Scott writes: I argued that it’s silly to talk about blogs “killing” print – that we keep getting stuck in a loop every time a new news distribution technology comes along, asking, will this “kill” its predecessor? Radio didn’t kill print, TV didn’t kill radio, the Net didn’t kill TV, and blogs won’t kill anything.…

  • Overheard at Seybold

    One of the POD guys waiting to get into a room to start their session: The last panel was on blogs and they don’t want to get off the podium (POD = print on demand)